Yes, I was going to write something more exciting… but the whole family has a stomach virus, the husband and I go back to work next week, and we’ve basically survived the last three days on instant oatmeal and Lord of the Rings marathons.

On the plus side, my four-year-old now knows the difference between an orc and Uruk-hai.

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Aragorn is hot, you can never watch those movies enough times. I wrote to Viggo Mortensen back when I was a young fanwoman before he got famous from Lord of the Rings movies (I fell for him in A Perfect Murder especially when I found out he did the paintings in it himself and also wrote poetry, which was actually good besides being a talented painter and photographer and he was nice enough to hand write me back a nice post card, I have that framed on my wall besides a Return of the king poster.